Cyber-Security in Heterogeneous Networks

3. The method of claim 1 further comprises requesting a vendor of the second device to install the security agent on instances of devices of a type of the second device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining the second-level of in-device protection is based on vulnerability information associated with devices from a type of the second device, wherein the vulnerability information is obtained from a vulnerability database.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second security policy comprises an examination action for incoming communications, wherein the examination action comprises: determining whether an incoming communication is associated with a compromising action and in response to a determination that the incoming communication is associated with the compromising action, performing a responsive action; wherein the first security policy excludes the examination action; whereby the examination action is performed with respect to communication originating from the second device and is not performed with respect to communication originating from the first device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the second security policy comprises utilizing resources of a trusted server to improve security of the device with respect to communications originating from the second device, wherein the first security policy is devoid of utilization of the resources of the trusted server.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said utilizing comprises executing a second security agent on the trusted server, wherein the second security agent is configured to validate outgoing communications from the second device; wherein the first device is configured to execute a first security agent, wherein the first security agent is configured to validate outgoing communications from the first device; wherein the second security policy comprises employing, the first security policy for communications originating from the second device and tunneled through the server.